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Katie Holmes Trying To Hold Everything Together

  • No one is buying tickets to go see Katie Holmes' big Broadway play even though she's basically killing herself trying to do the play and jet back to LA to see Tom Cruise and work out and raise her daughter. "She looked pretty groggy."
  • Ricky Gervais is to join the "thick-necked... slangy" British expat community in New York after buying a Manhattan apartment with his girlfriend. The cost was about $1.7 million worthless American dollars, which is like 240 British pounds. Cheersmate. [Post]
  • The nightclub 1Oak was accused of firing black and Asian waitresses to make the staff more white. The bosses assured everyone that four white waitresses were fired at the same time, for not upholding the very high standards of club waitressing. [P6]
  • New York cops reportedly enjoy guarding anti-Scientology pickets. [R&M]
  • A joke about Amy Winehouse won a big Scottish joke prize. [Daily Star]

8:30 AM on Fri Aug 22 2008
By Ryan Tate
2,924 views, 32 comments

Latest by JacquesPaysan: @NinaHagen: Such a fancy word for a cardboard box under the Brooklyn Bridge. more »

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Ricky Gervais and John Hodgeman Explore Superpowers, Breasticles

Would you rather be able to fly or be invisible? The Office and Extras creator Ricky Gervais explains the pitfalls of flight to The Daily Show's John Hodgman. Also? Penis nipples and breast testicles. More »

4:02 PM on Sat May 31 2008
By ian spiegelman
4,633 views, 48 comments

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Japan's Version of The Office

Last night's Saturday Night Live featured an hysterical sketch in which The Office creator Ricky Gervais explains the hit sitcom's Japanese origins. Ricky Gervais and Steve Carell all in one clip? Yes! Enjoy it after the jump. More »

12:20 PM on Sun May 18 2008
By ian spiegelman
30,984 views, 45 comments

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Small Newspaper Puts TV Star On Notice

Last week, British the Office star Ricky Gervais posted a video to his personal blog that both mocked his Office character and had fun at the expense of an entertainment column in the Lowell, Massachusetts Sun, paper for a town where Gervais was scouting locations for his new movie. Since then, the Sun columnist in question has replied to Gervais' video, seemingly in soft, celebrity-friendly tones, but also with some sentences that could be read as vaguely threatening: More »

2:03 AM on Mon Mar 24 2008
By Ryan Tate
3,565 views, 26 comments

Latest by louisev: I was born in Lowell. Take it from me - don't mess with The Sun - those people have NO more »

HaHa Tina Fey has been cast in Ricky Gervais' directorial debut film This Side of Truth, which will also feature Christopher Guest, Jeffery Tambor, John Hodgman (whee!), and Jonah Hill, among others. Funnee overload! Let's hope they don't all cancel each other out and just stand around blinking for two hours.

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The Office Star Mocks Your Tiny Local Paper

Ricky Gervais, star of the original British version of deadpan TV comedy the Office, just started a personal blog and has already resorted to that old blogger standby, local media criticism. But Gervais' video sendup of the Lowell, Mass. Sun is, as you'd expect, far more entertaining than the local press commentary most internet cranks churn out. The comedian's short skit is delivered in the deceptively gentle tones of Gervais' Office character and mocks the character's own pomposity. At the same time, it nails the defining pitfalls of community journalism — the typos, excessive attribution, bizarre story placement, awkward prose — as Gervais dissembles the Sun's page-11 coverage of pre-production on his new movie, This Side Of Truth. Any hack who earned his stripes at a small-newspaper city desk will cringe in sympathy. Video after the jump. More »

5:43 AM on Wed Mar 19 2008
By Ryan Tate
4,019 views, 9 comments

Latest by AndFurthermore...: Not like the heyday of the Lowell Sun, when they had three correspondents filing teletype dispatches from the Scoops Monkey more »

From the U.K. comes the Ricky Gervais backlash. [Guardian]

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April Showers Bring May Magazine Conferences

There are times when a magazine is more than just a magazine. Times like springtime! The season when ideas become conversations and bylines jump to life; when the caterpillar sheds its larval newsprint and blossoms, at last, into a butterfly in flight about the z calo. By next month, it'll be happening in twos, as the New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine both put on their nice clothes and venture into the world of the living with a pair of star-studded public conferences. Each will deliver its parent publication's noted intellects in a neat, bow-topped basket of brains, all spit-shined and freshly painted. But which to choose if you've got only one weekend and, say, no more than a month's rent or so to devote to the zeitgeist hunt? More »

8:48 AM on Sun Apr 8 2007
By jliu
974 views, 2 comments

Latest by atthelibrary: Um, that rabbit is fat. more »

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Media Bubble: Lady Black Strikes Again

  • Lady Black flips out on Canuck media outside hubbie Conrad's court date, calls producer a slut, claims "I used to be a journalist!" Oh my God, when? [CP]
  • Tribune sends out another publisher to the provinces; will the new Baltimore Sun publisher go native and turn on the Chicago Fatherland? Question! Do they just keep a stockpile of VP suits, each ready to be dispatched to the front lines? Is it a clone army? And if so, is it Tribune HQ that's spending too much money on staff, rather than the papers? [Sun]
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    9:46 AM on Tue Mar 20 2007
    By Choire
    942 views, 1 comment

    Latest by raincoaster: That remark of Babs's is particularly amusing in light of her own storied past. more »

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    Media Bubble: Dave, Stop Killing Prostitutes

  • The axe falls today at Time Inc. Send your memos and stories here and we'll share them with the world. [NYP]
  • Burkle/Broad, the Chandler family, others bid on Tribune. [WWD]
  • NBC: almost tied for second and climbing! [NYT]
  • Ana Marie Cox getting an HBO show? Stranger things have happened. "Lucky Louie," for instance. [Radar]
  • John Malone may want to add Cablevision to his portfolio. Hopefully, he'll fire Isiah. [NYP]
  • The BBC is fulfilling its duty to serve the public interest. [Guardian]
  • Small dent in Ricky Gervais' halo. [Independent]
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    9:20 AM on Thu Jan 18 2007
    By abalk2
    376 views, 10 comments

    Latest by Balk: FINALLY. Thank you, Ascender. more »